Artists Gallery

Featured artists

Nicolas Bets arrives in Paris from his native Belgium at 17, to become, like his mother, a photographer. He graduated after only one year in photography school. During seven years, he attends to great names in the profession, such as Claus Wichrath and Jean-Daniel Lorieux. On its best playing field, combining delusion and rigor, the aesthetics and sense of detail are pushed to the extreme. Between the harmony of colors, the sets, and the expressive power of the characters (sometimes numerous) he puts on stage, Nicolas Bets signs a recognizable and unique brand of his kind.

Franck Bohbot is a french photographer and visual artist best know for his use of color photography. He focuses his artistic research on public spaces, urban landscapes and environmental portraits. Rooted in his fascination with cinematographic iconography, his thematics study the relationship between the individual and architecture. He has drawn artistic inspiration from figures as diverse as Luigi Ghirri, Walker Evans, Edward Hopper, or William Eggleston. While manipulating color with great precision, he highlights the soft subtleties of this relationship by playing with both fluorescent and melancholic light and chromatics. Each one of Bohbotâ€™s works features these photographic intentions â€” through their enigmatic atmosphere, documentary-style approach, and timeless feel, we are transported to a dreamy, velvety, and nearly infinite visual paradise. His unique style enabled him to work with prestigious magazines, institutions and designers such as the New York Times, The New York Magazine, National Geographic, The Louvre Museum, Sothebyâ€™s, Paul Smith and Christian Dior. He works and lives in New York City.

Hardibudi (the artist’s pseudonym) is an Indonesian artist born in 1968 who lives in the vibrant city of Jakarta. From a young age he developed a keen interest in the arts, experimenting with various disciplines before focusing on painting and photography. He took his first photographs in 2003 with a camera belonging to his family. Through the dehumanised representation of motionless figures posing without expression, his works satirise today’s modern world. His use of photo editing software allows him to fully control this precise aesthetic. In order to intensify the emotional reach of his works, Hardibudi eliminates all superfluous elements. In the same way, the deliberate choice of a palette of primary colours avoids any potential distraction. The composition of his images makes use of pure lines that merge into the subject, thus erasing any notion of hierarchy between the various elements present within the image.

Damien Dufresne is an unconventional photographer: after building a reputation in the fields of cosmetics and advertising, working as an art photographer enables him to forget the rules of the fashion world.
… 'Art photography provides me with real freedom; my imagination has free reign. I do not wish to be controversial but I stop at nothing. I follow my instinct. I create images that are meaningful and speak to me…’
… 'Drawing, painting and photography are a means of expression for me, to tell stories without the use of words, a form of language, a different way of communicating’…
… ‘The technique is not an end in itself but a means of supporting creativity…emotion is the most important thing to me’ ….
His strength: creativity.
His uniqueness : texture and colour.
His motivation: passion.
Damien Dufresne has worked in Paris, Seoul, Milan, New York and Tokyo.
He currently lives in Shanghai.
Publications
2005 《Wake up》Publisher Assouline
2013 《Skin》Publisher Assouline
2018 《One》Self-publication, Printer Shanghai Artron
Solo exhibitions
2012 Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2014 “Peinture sur soi”, Edward Achour Paris, Paris, France
2016 “Weird”, Salon H St Germain des Près, Paris, France
2016 “Through your eyes" Marie Dalgar 7th Crossover Art Project, Shanghai, China
2018 “Clandestins”, YellowKorner Francs Bourgeois Gallery, Paris, France